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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201210
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SUMMARY:38th JAPAN FILM FESTIVAL - A Long Goodbye
DESCRIPTION:The 38th Annual Japan Film Festival \nCo-presented by the Canadian Film Institute\, Embassy of Japan in Canada and The Japan Foundation\, Toronto \nThursday\, December 10\, 2020 to Saturday\, December 12\, 2020 \n@ONLINE\, admission free\, registration required \nOne of the Canadian Film Institute’s longest-running annual festivals\, the Japan Film Festival\, has showcased the best in contemporary filmmaking from Japan. Despite the pandemic\, this cinematic tradition continues online to film lovers all across Canada. Presented with the generous support of and in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan and The Japan Foundation\, Toronto. \nDetails > \n\n \nThe Long Goodbye 長いお別れ \nDirected by NAKANO Ryota \n2019 | 127 min. | Japanese with English Subtitles \nClick here to watch movie > \nShohei is a retired school principal dealing with dementia whose escapades wreak havoc on his family. Despite their own individual agonies\, his two daughters Mari and Fumi return home to take care of their father together with their mother Yoko as he faces Alzheimer’s disease. As Shohei’s memory gradually deteriorates\, the family learns about an unexpected “recollection” that lives within him. In a long goodbye to their father\, fond memories and forgotten hopes flow back into their lives. \nA Long Goodbye is the film adaptation of Naoki Prize-winning author NAKAJIMA Kyoko’s same-named novel with NAKANO Ryota (Her Love Boils Bathwater\, 2016) serving as director and screenplay writer. The film delivers a touching\, and humorous depiction of seven years in the lives of a father diagnosed with dementia. \nThe screening includes a discussion about dementia with Kiyoshi Dembo of the Momiji Health Care Society (Toronto) with CFI Executive Director Tom McSorley and Program Officer at The Japan Foundation\, Nobi Nakamura. \n(c) 2019 “A Long Goodbye” Film Partners \nClick here to watch movie > \nLet us know how you liked the film! \nLinks: Momiji Health Care Society\, Alzheimer’s Canada\, Japanese Medical Support Network Canada \nA Long Goodbye trailer below > \n \n\n \nKoshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams  \nDirected by YAMAZAKI Ema Ryan \n2019 | 94 min. | Japanese with English Subtitles \nClick here to watch movie > \nMizutani Kantoku’s (head coach) whole life has been in preparation for the historic 100th Koshien\, the wildly popular High School baseball tournament that defines the Japanese summer. A stubborn but passionate man\, his martial brand of baseball in Yokohama maintains all that is beautiful\, if extreme\, in the uniquely Japanese form of the sport — rigorous year- round training\, shaved heads\, and self-sacrifice. The players believe in his message that their primary goal is to grow as human beings\, so cleaning the grounds and keeping impeccable manners are as important as honing their skills. \nHowever\, beyond the company line\, Mizutani boils with desire to validate his career by reaching the sacred grounds of Koshien. Having always prioritized his work over family responsibilities\, he has never seen his 15 year-old son\, Kosho\, play baseball. Rather than take him onto his own team\, calling on his well-earned web of connections\, he sends Kosho away to be raised by a disciple Kantoku in the remote prefecture of Iwate. Sasaki Kantoku\, though\, has outgrown the ways of his mentor. After having raised Major Leaguers OHTANI Shohei and KIKUCHI Yusei\, he has a progressive vision that proposes a new direction for the sport. Sasaki takes inspiration from bonsai — although wires are needed to guide young branches\, those wires must be taken off at the right time. So too does modern baseball require a delicate balance between enforcement and autonomy for players. \nAcross Japan\, four thousand schools begin knockout competition\, with only one winner from each prefecture able to advance to Koshien. Will all of Mizutani’s good deeds add up to a miracle\, or will he prove to be a relic of a bygone era? Can Sasaki\, with Kosho in tow\, challenge the system in a culture where the nail that sticks up is liable to be hammered down? In the crucible of the Japanese summer\, the scoreboard will be their report card\, and a referendum on their values. \nThe screening includes an interview between CFI Executive Director\, Tom McSorley\, and the film’s director\, YAMAZAKI Ema Ryan. \nClick here to watch movie > \nLet us know how you liked the film! \nKoshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams trailer below >
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/a-long-goodbye/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:38th JAPAN FILM FESTIVAL - Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:The 38th Annual Japan Film Festival \nCo-presented by the Canadian Film Institute\, Embassy of Japan in Canada and The Japan Foundation\, Toronto \nThursday\, December 10\, 2020 to Saturday\, December 12\, 2020 \n@ONLINE\, admission free\, registration required \nOne of the Canadian Film Institute’s longest-running annual festivals\, the Japan Film Festival\, has showcased the best in contemporary filmmaking from Japan. Despite the pandemic\, this cinematic tradition continues online to film lovers all across Canada. Presented with the generous support of and in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan and The Japan Foundation\, Toronto. \nDetails > \n\n \nKoshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams  \nDirected by YAMAZAKI Ema Ryan \n2019 | 94 min. | Japanese with English Subtitles \nClick here to watch movie > \nMizutani Kantoku’s (head coach) whole life has been in preparation for the historic 100th Koshien\, the wildly popular High School baseball tournament that defines the Japanese summer. A stubborn but passionate man\, his martial brand of baseball in Yokohama maintains all that is beautiful\, if extreme\, in the uniquely Japanese form of the sport — rigorous year- round training\, shaved heads\, and self-sacrifice. The players believe in his message that their primary goal is to grow as human beings\, so cleaning the grounds and keeping impeccable manners are as important as honing their skills. \nHowever\, beyond the company line\, Mizutani boils with desire to validate his career by reaching the sacred grounds of Koshien. Having always prioritized his work over family responsibilities\, he has never seen his 15 year-old son\, Kosho\, play baseball. Rather than take him onto his own team\, calling on his well-earned web of connections\, he sends Kosho away to be raised by a disciple Kantoku in the remote prefecture of Iwate. Sasaki Kantoku\, though\, has outgrown the ways of his mentor. After having raised Major Leaguers OHTANI Shohei and KIKUCHI Yusei\, he has a progressive vision that proposes a new direction for the sport. Sasaki takes inspiration from bonsai — although wires are needed to guide young branches\, those wires must be taken off at the right time. So too does modern baseball require a delicate balance between enforcement and autonomy for players. \nAcross Japan\, four thousand schools begin knockout competition\, with only one winner from each prefecture able to advance to Koshien. Will all of Mizutani’s good deeds add up to a miracle\, or will he prove to be a relic of a bygone era? Can Sasaki\, with Kosho in tow\, challenge the system in a culture where the nail that sticks up is liable to be hammered down? In the crucible of the Japanese summer\, the scoreboard will be their report card\, and a referendum on their values. \nThe screening includes an interview between CFI Executive Director\, Tom McSorley\, and the film’s director\, YAMAZAKI Ema Ryan. \nClick here to watch movie > \nLet us know how you liked the film! \nKoshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams trailer below > \n \n\n \nThe Long Goodbye 長いお別れ \nDirected by NAKANO Ryota \n2019 | 127 min. | Japanese with English Subtitles \nClick here to watch movie > \nShohei is a retired school principal dealing with dementia whose escapades wreak havoc on his family. Despite their own individual agonies\, his two daughters Mari and Fumi return home to take care of their father together with their mother Yoko as he faces Alzheimer’s disease. As Shohei’s memory gradually deteriorates\, the family learns about an unexpected “recollection” that lives within him. In a long goodbye to their father\, fond memories and forgotten hopes flow back into their lives. \nA Long Goodbye is the film adaptation of Naoki Prize-winning author NAKAJIMA Kyoko’s same-named novel with NAKANO Ryota (Her Love Boils Bathwater\, 2016) serving as director and screenplay writer. The film delivers a touching\, and humorous depiction of seven years in the lives of a father diagnosed with dementia. \nThe screening includes a discussion about dementia with Kiyoshi Dembo of the Momiji Health Care Society (Toronto) with CFI Executive Director Tom McSorley and Program Officer at The Japan Foundation\, Nobi Nakamura. \n(c) 2019 “A Long Goodbye” Film Partners \nClick here to watch movie > \nLet us know how you liked the film! \nA Long Goodbye trailer below > \n \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/koshien-japans-field-of-dreams/
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SUMMARY:KATSUSHIKA Oei: A Woman Artist in the Floating World
DESCRIPTION:KATSUSHIKA Oei (Ōi) is not a household name. Her father\, however\, is renowned as one of the greatest masters of art — Hokusai. Brought up assisting Hokusai with his trade\, Oei learned all the techniques of painting ukiyo-e\, had access to the inner circle of artists in Edo\, and had opportunities to showcase her skills time and time again\, particularly in the portrayal of women. \nOver time\, Oei’s biology and her relationship with her father obscured her immense talent\, and she has remained in the shadows of history. In this joint presentation hosted by the Japan Foundation\, Toronto and The Japan Society Canada\, novelist Ms. Katherine Govier and art historian Dr. Rosina Buckland (the British Museum) will discuss Oei’s skills\, her contributions to Hokusai’s lifework\, and why she deserves to be celebrated as an artist in her own right. \nThe discussion will be followed by a live Q+A moderated by Ms. Deanna Horton\, Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. \n\nThis is an exclusively online event to begin at 1:00 PM EST on Saturday\, December 12. Registration is required. A link to the talk will be sent to the registered email address 24 hours prior to the start of the event.\n\n\n\nKatherine Govier’s most recent novel is The Three Sisters Bar & Hotel. Her previous novel\, The Ghost Brush\, about the daughter of the Japanese printmaker Hokusai\, was published in Japan and worldwide. An earlier novel\, Creation\, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has won the Toronto Book Award and Canada’s Findley-Engel Award for a mid-career writer (1997). In 2018 she was honoured for Excellence in the Arts by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. In 2019 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. \nActive in her profession\, and always committed to raising the voices of marginalized women\, Katherine has been President of PEN Canada and Chair of The Writers’ Trust. She co-founded the national schools writing program Writers in Electronic Residence and more recently founded\, directed and is Board Chair of The Shoe Project\, a writing and public speaking workshops for immigrant and refugee women. \nKatherine was born in Edmonton\, Alberta and attended The University of Alberta and York University. She has two adult children\, Robin and Emily\, and two grandchildren. With her partner Nick Rundall\, a retired publisher\, she divides her time between Toronto and Canmore\, Alberta\, in the Rocky Mountains. Her upcoming novel again features Katsushika Oei\, woman artist of the floating world\, who rises from her unknown grave to discover what happened to her art during the Meiji era. \n\nPhotograph by Phil Wilkinson\, National Museums Scotland \nRosina Buckland is Curator of the Japanese Collections at the British Museum. She read Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and after graduating worked in Japan as a translator. She received a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University and worked at the British Museum for several years before moving to the National Museum of Scotland\, and later the Royal Ontario Museum\, Toronto\, Canada. Her primary research area is pictorial art of the nineteenth century\, with a focus on Chinese-inspired culture. Her publications include Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan (2010) and Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan (2013). During 2019 she guest-curated a special exhibition of drawings by Taki Katei at the World Museum\, Liverpool. She is currently writing a book on Meiji-era art. \n\nDeanna Horton’s foreign service career in Asia spanned a total of twelve years in Japan\, including as Deputy Head of Mission at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo\, and also as Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. As a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy\, she has led a digital mapping project on Canada’s footprint in Asia  and related research on technology multinationals. Ms. Horton is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Canadian Global Affairs Institute Fellow\, writing on economic and trade policy issues with a focus on Asia. She is on the executive of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Bishop White Committee in support of the ROM’s Asian collections. Deanna Horton received a Diploma in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center\, a M.A. (International Affairs) from Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and a B.A. (Hons) from McGill University. She also spent two years studying the Japanese language and Japan at the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama\, Japan. \n\nCo-Presented by: \n \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/govier-and-buckland/
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